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Recipient. in jackson, mississippi. the paper has been breaking news on the senate race all along. thank you so much for joining us tonight. >> thanks for having me. >> so i watched this debate last night in which senator hyde smith addressed the public hang comments when she said were meant to be an expression of the guard i watched she kept coming back to guns, abortion and second amendment and repeating the response to her hanging comments was just using it as a political cudgel against her. is that going to work in a state like mississippi in. >> it absolutely could work. the conventional ...

That's who we are. there has always been an attitude if we're not that, then we can leave. and that's something that many people now are fighting because we don't think that that is true or that it should be true. >> right. obviously, your paper was in jackson, mississippi, jackson being where mmedger evers lived and died. the lynching, a lot is dark territory. however, one of the things that the trump era has meant is that for a lot of you know not a lot of, not every white american. for some this idea of calling out racism has been sort of turned around for people to say, that doesn't affect...

And the likes of duke ellington, cab calloway, count basie, and louis armstrong all took the stage at places like the crystal palace ballroom and the alamo on farish street. what happened? where did it all go? >> geno: what killed farish street was immigration. once we were able to branch out of our own indigenous black-run businesses, the black-owned businesses died. >> anthony: right. >> geno: so great for the black race, but terrible for the black business. in fact, the only reason you're coming to farish street right now -- >> anthony: mm-hmm. >> geno: -- is we have two churches, two funer...

Tennessee, they need to sort of pull a rabbit out. smo . >> missouri, claire mccaskill, is she in trouble? >> yeah. i think this is the closest thing right now looking at these races to a perfect tie of a race right now. but again, we see this scenario where the democrats could get it. the other senator owe is tcenard pick up a missouri, they could build a majority bigger than they came into the election with. >> steve kornacki, thank you. there's another key senate race that could get pretty interesting with three big name candidates on the ballot. one of them has to pick up 50% of the vote...

That progress. >> jackson is a long list of failures, why do you think the confirmation process has been so challenging for this white house? >> because president trump is a genius at doing the fighting part of politics. of the in fact, that's one of his chief calling cards and some people in the republican base like that. they say he fights and that's great. what he doesn't really know how to do is the spade work of leadership, where you have to vet people before you appoint them to high ranking positions. you have to do it not just for the sake of the country, making sure that the person you...